Open budgeting allows community to present their demands and priorities for improvement, and influence through discussions and negotiations the budget allocations made by the school district. An open budget process at the district level may include: post budget alternatives on the web solicit feedback from the public, hold town hall meetings to inform the public and solicit ideas, create a committee with a membership from various constituencies in the community to advise the board. Whenever, possible budget decisions should be made by those most impacted by the budget; the district should implement site base or participatory budgeting.
Participatory Budgeting, at its most basic, refers to turning over budgetary decisions to the community members impacted by the budget. Most of the well-known examples of participatory budgeting involve city administrations that have turned over decisions over municipal budgets, such as its overall priorities and choice of new investments, to citizen assemblies. Other examples involve school budgets, housing project budgets, and the budgets of cooperatives and non-profit organizations.
Participatory budgeting consists of a process of democratic deliberation and decision-making, in which parents, teachers, students, and administrators (community members) decide how to allocate part of a local school ‘s budget through a series of local assemblies and meetings. It is generally characterized by several basic features: community members identify spending priorities and elect budget delegates to represent their local school , budget delegates transform community priorities into concrete project proposals, district level facilitate and provide technical assistance, community members vote on which projects to fund, and the school district implements the budget priorities and budget projects. Various studies have suggested that participatory budgeting can lead greater government transparency and accountability, increased levels of public participation (especially by marginalized residents), and democratic and citizenship learning.
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